Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you’re attacked Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems.…
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Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system
Process pig keeps eyes glued on fraudsters’ phone number. Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…
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Tech support scammers use denial of service bug to hang victims
Entire country gets to enjoy life without the web thanks to huge DDoS attack The West African country of Liberia was knocked offline this week.…
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Mirai IoT botnet blamed for smashing Liberia off the internet
Yet firm refuses to say the word DDoS. What are they hiding? Outage-hit security firm Barracuda appears to have been struck down by a DDoS – though the firm says it’s still investigating and refuses to confirm or deny it.…
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Barracuda: Outage caused by ‘large number of inbound connections’
Life’s a lottery, even with Darktrace supporting your online services… William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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William Hill website under siege from DDoS attacks
Cops say net crims launched 1.7 million attacks from 15 year-old’s creation. A 19 year-old Hertfordshire man has pled guilty to running the Titanium Stresser booter service that offered distributed denial of service (DDoS)-as-a-service.…
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Teen UK hacker pleads guilty after earning $385k from DDoS tool
And break every computer crime law along the way A GitHub user going by Leo Linsky has forked a repo created by researcher Jerry Gamblin to create an anti-worm “nematode” that could help to patch vulnerable devices used in the massive Mirai distributed denial of service attack.…
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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army
Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…
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SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets
600 Gbps traffic flood overwhelmed CDN Google has provided free distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) mitigation services to security publication Krebs on Security , stepping in after Akamai withdrew support.…
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Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world’s-worst DDoS
Cloud-based DDoS defences introduce delays Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can be painful and debilitating. How can you defend against them? Originally, out-of-band or scrubbing-centre DDoS protection was the only show in town, but another approach, inline mitigation, provides a viable and automatic alternative.…
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